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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"education for sustainability"”.
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Environmental Education for Sustainability Projects: Inspiring and Facilitating Implementation
… existence. As of now, students are not being informed on the sustainability issues, or engaged in the change process at school. Rote memorization occurring in schools does not create critical thinkers that could help make the changes needed for the environment.</p> <p>The purpose of this study …
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Integrating Intercultural Competence into Graduate Education for Sustainability Professionals
Sustainability professionals often lack the intercultural competencies needed to effectively engage in the cooperative, collaborative work that must be accomplished to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. Higher education institutions are well-positioned to help meet …
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The development of a whole school approach to education for sustainability
To address environmental and sustainability problems we need a new way of educating our young people; one that provides them with the capabilities and skills to find and examine their own frameworks for solving these problems in the future. Thus, it has been argued that we urgently need to find new …
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leadership and early childhood education for sustainability: a multiple case study
… a response to an escalating awareness of global sustainability issues, an increasing number of early childhood leaders have chosen to adopt sustainability principles at their early childhood centers. However, there is a lack of research on Early Childhood Education for Sustainability (ECEfS), …
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The use of education for sustainability websites for community education in Chile
… has oriented attention to the role of education for sustainability (EfS) as a means to create more ecologically literate and sustainable societies. One premise is that socio-ecological sustainability issues and challenges are immediate and locally rooted. This calls for educational …
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The incorporation of environmental education for sustainability in the Namibian Colleges and Education
Environmental education (EE) as an approach to all education is needed to be incorporated in all the subjects of the school curriculum. In Namibia, there are Ministerial documents that support the incorporation of education About, In/ Through and For the environment within the curriculum. Even …
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Developing Pre-service Teacher Education in Environmental Education for Sustainability in Papua New Guinea
… in Papua New Guinea (PNG) identify the need for environmental education for sustainability (EEfS) to respond to environmental and sustainability issues faced within the country. However, little has been achieved to develop EEfS in pre-service teacher education. This doctoral study developed …
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Early Childhood Studies as a site for Education for Sustainability, Eco Literacy and Critical Pedagogy
… This narrative aims to offer a coherent context for my PhD journey, however, it also acknowledges that my ideologies, my epistemology leaks throughout this portfolio of evidence. The questions I have posed, the theorists I have chosen, what I report, and how I report my evidence are all …
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Culturally relevant Education and Skill-Based Education for Sustainability: Moving Towards an Integrated Theoretical and Methodological Framework
… prepare students from all cultural backgrounds for an active role in creating a sustainable global future. These skills include systems thinking skills, collaborative skills, creative and critical thinking skills, self-directed inquiry skills, and skills for active citizenship. Through review of …
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Education for sustainability: An ethnographic study of 15 year-2/3 rural Western Australian children’s attitudes on sustainability
… Australia in 2011, during UNESCO‟s Decade of Education for Sustainability Development, when sustainability became one of three cross-curriculum priorities of the Australian Curriculum. The study involved the development and implementation of a sustainability focused science program embedded in …
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Educação para a sustentabilidade: uma abordagem em escolas do Município de Patos, no Sertão da Paraíba.
This research focuses on the theme of education for sustainability and aims to investigate their approach in high schools of the city of Patos, Paraiba. The methodology that enables the research relies on a qualitative study of descriptive level subsidized by the method of content analysis and made …
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Word up : Algonquin College as a sustainability leader
… that Algonquin College should endeavour to be a sustainability leader. Online and clipboard surveys, involving on- and off-campus participants, compiled new ideas of how Algonquin could educate for sustainability. These ideas formed a needs analysis that, combined with a review of trends in North …
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The effect of an intervention on experienced chemistry teachers' pedagogical content knowledge of environmental sustainability
Providing proper education and making learners aware of environmental sustainability issues may be an effective way to help citizens deal with sustainability challenges. Teachers, however, have not been sufficiently trained on how to teach with sustainability concerns in mind. The simultaneous …
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Quantity surveying education and the benchmarking of future needs
The education and development needs of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) students has received a great deal of attention in recent years. The dynamic nature of the construction industry coupled with the ever-changing needs of clients has put sustained pressure on the AEC curricula of …
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Ecocritical English: A Subject-led Approach to Sustainability
… to every school subject, issues of environmental sustainability are marginalised in mainstream education. I argue that subject teachers should consider the distinctive contribution of their subjects to environmental sustainability. I develop this “subject-led” approach in relation to the teaching …
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“Flies don't make honey": An exploration of preschoolers’ feelings and actions towards nature
… has made protection, restoration and affection for the environment an increasingly urgent matter. The irresponsible use of resources and pollution has caused, and will continue to cause, disastrous impacts on habitats and ecosystems globally; we urgently need to better care for the natural …
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Teachers’ perceptions of professional learning through social media in environmental education
… and economic growth. The role of environmental education (EE) has been highlighted for promoting more sustainable ways of living by improving knowledge, behaviour and action to address environmental challenges and help society to shift toward sustainability. Environmental education is positioned …
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Transforming education in an era of climate change. From economic growth to degrowth discourses and cases of eco-logical practices in education.
… explores socio-ecological transitions in education that seek to problematise mainstream ‘growthmanship’, or, put simply, economic growth policy discourse in education. Building on a growing literature stemming mainly from ecological economists, as well as social and climate scientists on …
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ALCHEMY a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination : waste - waste not
… organic waste be used as sustainable material for an architectural proposition that has the potential to educate and promote a sustainable way of looking at waste? ABSTRACT: Waste has become a major issue worldwide, especially in terms of the environmental damage it causes. Scholars from a …
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Assessment of sustainability implementation in public policies and strategies in portuguese public universities
… para promover alterações comportamentais e fornecer as competências para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (DS) na medida em que permite a igualdade de oportunidades entre classes, géneros, e crenças ainda que o conceito de Educação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (EDS), que nasceu após a …